The members of the ANC have endorsed with 76% the roadmap of the entity, which certifies the opening of a new stage of the independence movement and that the unilateral path is the only possible strategy, as well as the commitment to promote a civic list for the next Catalan elections.
This was explained by the entity in a statement after finishing the voting of the Ordinary General Assembly (AGO), which was held virtually between May 18 and 24 and in which 2,523 members participated. The number of participants is notably lower than last year, when 4,275 militants voted to ratify a roadmap that obtained 96% support and no amendment to the entirety was presented. For the current script, instead, eight were presented. They have all fallen.
With the support of 76% of the roadmap, according to Europa Press, they believe that the entity’s action is ratified in the first year of the current secretariat’s mandate, with Dolors Feliu as president.
All this after, in February, the then vice president of the ANC Jordi Pesarrodona and other members of the secretariat resigned due to the tensions that arose around the civic list.
The approved document confirms the need to carry out a “new attack”, that the unilateral route is the only possible strategy to achieve a Catalan republic and maintains the momentum of a civic list independent of the parties, with participatory processes of election, decision and mechanisms of control and supervision.
It is also detailed that the civic list will have the form of a group of voters, that a promoter group will be constituted and that the members of the secretariat or the positions of the entity’s base assemblies may not be part of it. This candidacy will aim to “lift the declaration of independence” of October 2017 and “make it effective and maintain it, consolidating the Catalan republic”. If this goal is not achieved, the text makes it clear that it will not support any option other than making the declaration of independence effective. “Even if that means new elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, since it will no longer be accepted that those who call themselves independentistas continue to block independence while managing autonomy,” says the ANC.
Through one of the amendments presented, the final text includes that, in any case, the final push for the civic list must be ratified by the partners in a consultation to be held in the last quarter of 2023.
The text also places as a determining point the constitution of a pact of the civil independence movement that they want to bring together the main independence organizations to seek “synergies, advance and act together without renouncing the approaches of each entity.”
In addition to maintaining mobilization as a key tool to advance on all fronts, they include as essential factors the “confrontation” with the State, evidencing the alleged breaches of those who promised to culminate with independence and the demand for 1-O, among others.
The bases of the entity, through its territorial and sectorial representation, presented 612 amendments, nine of them to the totality, of which 155 were accepted or compromised.
According to the commission in charge of the operation of the assembly, “the maximum possible amendments were accepted to guarantee the plurality of opinions that coexist in the entity and that reflect the debate in which the country finds itself.”
Despite everything, the ANC secretariat has detected “possible improvements” in the voting process, so they will work to improve the system for next year.
The new roadmap and the new approaches for the 2023-2024 period are expected to be presented on June 18 at an event in the Girona auditorium in which the president Dolors Feliu and the vice president of the ANC, Núria MarÃn, will intervene .
